timber

Noun
  1. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material (synset 114967718)
    is a type of: building material - material used for constructing buildings
    subtypes:
    • stock - lumber used in the construction of something
    • strip - thin piece of wood or metal
    • board, plank - a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
    • planking - planks collectively; a quantity of planks
    substance holonym: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
    same as: lumber
  2. A beam made of wood (synset 104443319)
    is a type of: beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
    subtypes:
    • coulisse - a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel
    • sternpost - (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel
    • stringer - a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
    • two-by-four - a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section
  3. A post made of wood (synset 104443463)
    is a type of: post - an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
  4. Land that is covered with trees and shrubs (synset 109306921)
    is a type of:
    subtypes:
    • greenwood - woodlands in full leaf
    • riparian forest - woodlands along the banks of stream or river
    • silva, sylva - the forest trees growing in a country or region
    • tree farm - a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use
    specific instances:
    • black forest, schwarzwald - a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
    • sherwood forest - an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band
    • wilderness - a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
    same as: forest, timberland, woodland
  5. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) (synset 104994869)
    "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
    referred to in: music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
    is a type of: sound property - an attribute of sound
    subtypes:
    • harmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
    • resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
    • color, coloration, colour, colouration - the timbre of a musical sound
    • nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
    • plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
    • shrillness, stridence, stridency - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
    • register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
    same as: quality, timbre, tone

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